Zitat des Tages über Schwach / Feeble:
A feeble body weakens the mind.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.
Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature's forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.
I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better and better - until you just get too feeble to do it anymore.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.
In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.